If you don't already know, Wednesday's New York Times featured an article about Arsenal on the first page of the sports section. Setting the tone for the article was a picture of the Old Trafford scoreboard after that game. Quite frankly, I found this article to be the complete difference to their moniker, "all the news that's fit to print". This article wasn't fit to print, for the reasons below.  

LONDON - Fewer than two dozen Arsenal supporters gathered at the Herbert Chapman pub near Emirates Stadium, hoping to raise a glass in triumph but resigned to lower expectations.

Ahem, typo. It's not "pub near Emirates Stadium". You're missing a definitive article, NYT. Unless you want to be awkward sounding. Also, it sounds like these fans are at a funeral. Is it Herbert Chapman's funeral? If it isn't, the comparison used is kind of awful. 

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The media backlash against Arsenal was as guaranteed as the rain in monsoon season after yesterday's draw at St. James' Park in Newcastle, but sometimes, one has to laugh, publicly, at the uninspired sluck that writers actually receive compensation for from respected media outlets.  Paul Hayward, at the Guardian, just quite often happens to be one of these.

Well, it just so happens that Graham MacAree, over at We Ain't Got No History, SBN's Chelsea blog, started a blog section entitled "Fire Paul Hayward", named after the retired Fire Joe Morgan blog.  Like FJM, Fire Paul Hayward articles are dedicated to pulling apart badly conceived, poorly argued, unsubstantiated and unhelpful opinion.  Today's Hayward entry entitled "Joey Barton's maverick inspiration proves just what Newcastle need" practically begs for this treatment before one even finishes the headline.  So, here we go:

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